Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we find ourselves up here in
production greenhouse number one we wanted to come up here and show you give you a little update on
some of the plants that we are growing that you have seen since little tiny babies and to talk
about a few other things now let's address the beautiful elephant that is in the room today
look at these gorgeous violas if you will remember back weeks month six eight weeks ago i don't
remember how long ago ago it was now we had just gotten in the little plugs for the baby violas
these are those violas we have a fantastic customer gary who is a professional landscaper
he has a job that an account that he does downtown uptown charlotte at the bank of america and
he needed to have red white and blue violas to plant in their beds i think january 1st so as
soon as christmas is over he'll go in and take out all the christmas decor and then plant the
red white and blue violas for their beds and containers so we were growing them for him but
look at these these are some of the sweetest little faces now of course there's yellows
and purples in here jerry added a few extra of those in with the order so that we could get a
oh a different building okay so sorry so these are going to go into a different building
but y'all after growing pansies versus violas in my own garden this year
i really think i'm going to team viola they just have outperformed the pansies like unbelievably
well you can still have a viola with a nice size face on it they have a sweet little smell to them
yes so for me the violas have outperformed the pansies so far in fact there at the patio you
saw me early fall plant it's like the kale and the artemisia and then some pansies well the
pansies just went so i ripped out the pansies and put violas in the violas are loving life so
give you an update on that um also while we were here it is pretty obvious that we have a lot of
proven winners annual uh excuse me perennials and shrubs growing in here now if you remember
in production greenhouse one where we are this is an unheated greenhouse it's a cold frame we might
put heat in here at some point but for now and for the entire time that we've had it there is no
heat source in here so it just is heats up normally with the great heat of the sun and we can
lower it and raise the size up and down so forth and so on these plants in here are doing great
if you have been around creekside for any length of time you know that we are a proven
winner certified garden center we work very closely with proven winners on a lot of projects
and our big believers and proven winners simply because they have proven to be winners in our
garden we use them a lot almost exclusively all of our annuals are proven winners and each year
we add more perennials and shrubs to our line when you're scanning and jerry is kind of panning
over this greenhouse it's pretty obvious which perennials and which shrubs are proven winners
of course the vast majority of them are there are a couple of
black pots that you see that have perennials in them those are not proven winter plants
they're amazing plants they're just not proven winters as a consumer sometimes it can be
confusing as what are the proven winners what is it not especially the annuals because you've never
had to have a proven winners container with an annual well beginning in the spring of 22
this coming spring proven winners has implemented that all growers us and large-scale any scale
grower for proven winners has to have all of their proven winter plants must be in proven winter pots
so for you the consumer it is going to take out any kind of guesswork when you go to your local
garden center to your farmer's market to a big box store anywhere that you go and if they say it's a
proven winter's plant then it must be in a proven winner's pot because in the past the proven winter
annuals do not have to be in a proven winter's pot it just had to have the tag all of that
it can be confusing right is it is it a proven winners is it not why is it not in the container
well this coming year everybody's going to have to be in this it's like your annuals will be in your
this is a 4.25 grande size it is what the vast majority of proven winter annuals will come in
some annuals are in gallons just because they're quite vigorous and they're they're growing um so
this is your indication that this is truly a proven winners plant if it's inside the container
now creekside has grown all of our proven winners plants in their containers this past year so when
you came to the nursery and you came out to the shopping area around the pergola and you looked
out all you saw was a sea of white proven winter containers because for us it is they're great
pots to work with they're easy to use we love that that when they you put them in the in the
tray they automatically fit perfectly they nestle down right there makes it really easy
they have great little slots for the tags to go in but it just gives you a nice clean
look across as far as the nursery the retail center it's very pleasing to the eye so
every proven winter's plant must be in a proven winter's pot the only exception would be if it
was a hanging basket because there is no branded proven winners hanging basket but it will have a
beautiful um proven winter's tag on it so that you will know that those are proven winter's plants
so that is something for you to be looking at in your garden centers come this coming spring
so that's across the board look for those pots at creekside nothing's going to be different
it'll all be the same all a sea of white pots everywhere now i do want to give you a little bit
of an update on some things because here we are in december in this unheated cold frame greenhouse
and we have got perennials that are loving life this is
a hearty geranium this is a classic perennial this is the luxury slide in here roseanne hardy
geranium that does beautiful blue purple flowers this is going to be hardy in zones five to eight
it is more of a trailer and a spreader as opposed to an upright um bush so it's nice and low
but wide beautiful plant it is requires more than four hours of sun per day it will be a continuous
bloomer from late spring to mid fall this pairs beautifully with you know hostas and the steel
bees those part shade to part sun plants this is a great one i just i love it so i wanted to show
you that one and then of course you can't miss the daisies down here good old daisy may look at this
i really should clip these and take them home and put them in a bud vase because
that is just the classic most beautiful shasta daisy you ever did see now even my
daisy may and i have the banana cream 2 in the garden i'm still getting some sporadic blooms
now are they in all their glory no but they certainly are doing quite well and this sweet
thing is doing beautiful in here as well in fact speaking of the banana cream 2 come on down here
look at this if you're wondering what those noises are it's a very windy day
and we are in the greenhouse and some of the plastic is popping so
just ignore that we're fine all right so this is banana cream two
it's called banana cream too because there was a banana cream one this is the improved version
banana cream is another shasta daisy where it starts out this beautiful kind of this buttery
banana yellow as the flowers mature they will turn to a creamy white so on your plant you will have
blooms of various shades of white and creamy yellow hence the banana cream pie reference
these are hearty in zones of five to nine beautiful easy care plants i will say
that i think as a general rule especially in our clay soil they do not like to have
really consistent wet feet i think i accidentally killed like three of the shasta daisies because
i was trying them out in a new spot and they they didn't like wet feet so do not plant them
in an area that has consistent wet feet especially if it's our clay soil well draining soil that's
what they like so all of these of course will be available in the spring going from
winter into spring they will be available and we have them in here they will not stay in here
all winter these are very cold tolerant we were just kind of getting them nice and well rooted
before we do move them out into the fields for the winter but we've got um this is a phlox
this is at opal essence phlox again now it's not blooming but it's got beautiful foliage right now
again our main goal was to get these roots nice and well established before the real brutal cold
hits and we stuck them outside that's why they're in here they will be moved this is opalescence
which is a great one smells fantastic if you have any questions just go to provenwinners.com
type in the name and they'll tell you everything you've ever wanted to know um this whole sea
of green right here are various butterfly bushes and you can tell that they're starting to kind of
had a little bit of the cold hit them that's why they have some yellow leaves the butterfly bushes
are semi-evergreens so they will lose some of their leaves but not all of their leaves just
like yours at home for these what we will do just like what you need to do to your butterfly bushes
late winter going into spring you trim them back because they bloom on new growth we want
to encourage those blooms so we will give them a nice shape up and then this hydrangea is clearly
very happy this is invincibelle garnetta they are a fantastic smooth hydrangea
very happy still have nice green leaves that garnetta is color specific so that means
your soil ph does not change the color of the bloom it will be this great garnet color
regardless of your soil ph we have found with all of the invincibelle hydrangeas from proven winners
where we are north carolina zone 7b that they do the absolute best when they get morning sun
afternoon shade even though on the tag it says it can do full sun to park shade
with our heat and humidity and not cooling off at night they do the best morning sun
afternoon shades so when you're picking out a spot for an invincible whether it's a limeta
or garnetta a ruby whatever it may be just keep in mind give it a break from that hot afternoon sun
garnetta is going to be nice and petite it's only going to be two and a half feet tall and wide
so this would be perfect on the border of a flower bed even in a container it would be awesome
and they are hardy in zones three to eight so extremely cold tolerant really adaptable
beautiful red garnet color um jeer is there anything else we need to talk about today
he doesn't think so it is we were going to go outside and kind of give you an update
and show you some of the shrubs but it is like incredibly windy and so we are going to
kind of pass on that for today um but pretty soon we will be moving these out because we
will have all of our annuals coming in and we will need to make way for those so we will be
transitioning these babies out into the production fields so they can go to sleep for the winter
but yeah so that way we can get them all filled back up in here with annuals
and hanging baskets that's what the drippers are for above me but as always thank you so much for
garning with creekside you all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends